MARKETING RESEARCH SEARCH ENGINES
This list of search engines and indexes is not comprehensive, but instead attempts to include tools most useful to marketing researchers, to exclude sites that require subscriptions or that include pop-up advertising, and to minimize redundancy. Sources of more comprehensive and detailed lists include Fagan Finder and Search Engine Watch.
Web Search Engines and Indexes
Note that most crawler-based search engines, whatever the brand name, are currently based on three primary technologies: Yahoo!, Google, and Teoma.
- Yahoo!
- Ask (Teoma)
- DMOZ - Open Directory Project, a human edited index
- Thunderstone Web Site Catalog - index of websites, not of pages
Meta Crawlers and Meta Search Engines
combine the results from submission to several search engines- Dogpile
- Mamma
- SurfWax
- ixquick
- Fazzle - boolean, phrase, title, and URL searches
- Searchy - results sorted by search engine
- ez2Find - provides category lists
- Query Server - results sorted by category (cluster)
- iBoogie - results sorted by category (cluster)
- KartOO - organizes pages into categories on a visual map
- Vivisimo (Clusty) - organizes pages into category lists
News Search Engines
- Yahoo! news portal
- Google news portal
- Ask news portal
- Topix
- Daypop
- Feedster
- Rocketinfo
- World News Network
- News Now
- News Trove
- NewsIsFree
- Kiosken - find a newspaper by name
- NewsDirectory - find a newspaper by name
Journal and Magazine Article Search
- Google Scholar - search scholarly / academic literature
- HighBeam Research - search newspapers, magazines, journals, encyclopedias
- FindArticles
- MagPortal
Blog Search
Newsgroup, Forum, and Message Board Search Engines
- Google Group Search - formerly Deja usenet search engine
- BoardReader - search message boards
Other Search Tools
Last edited 18 JAN 2007